Ends Quote by John Darnielle

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

“Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan's letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story.…

— Joe Hill

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all the terrible…

— Mark Leyner

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it…

— Robert Creeley

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes…

— Donald Miller

I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the…

— Errol Morris

“Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”

— Lee Smith

“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took…

— Melanie Fair

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

— Robert Wise